The crowd looked on as Bottom, the character from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, awoke from his inspirational slumber in this past weekend’s performance.
Person Of The Year
Momentum Award: Ariel Durgana and Ronnie Seeney
When Ronnie Seeney, CSOM ’13, told members of the administration that she planned to start the popular ALC Showdown promptly at 7 p.m. and wrap it all up by 9:30 p.m. sharp, the group couldn’t hold back their amusement.
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Mapping Out The Summer
By: Brennan Carley, Taylor Cavallo, Dan Siering, & Chris Marino
This is it, folks, we’re in the home stretch. Summer is almost within our grasps. We’ve been so consumed with finals and projects that it’s entirely possible that pop culture goings on have completely missed our radar. The new season of Game of Thrones is already several episodes deep, but if you’ve been keeping up with your studies, it’s likely you haven’t been keeping up with the Lannisters.
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Parents Of Alex Grant Sue Nine Men
The parents of Alex Grant, the Boston College student who drowned in an upstate New York creek last March, have filed a lawsuit against nine men they allege played a role in their son’s death by providing him and his childhood friend, Michael Perlow, with alcohol. The lawsuit was filed last Monday in Saratoga County…
Person Of The Year
Momentum Award: Bonnie Jefferson
Retirement. The very word has a stigma too it. We think of old age, of the slow-moving, of the culmination of careers. Retirement, we think, is the end of an era.
Arts
The Mightiest Avenger
By: Brennan Carley
Q: What was your process in writing the film? Did you already have a directorial vision when you were penning the screenplay?
JOSS WHEDON: [Laughs], This is so weird. Yes, I did. Half of writing a script is writing visually, is figuring out what you need it to look and feel like as much what they’re gonna say.
Person Of The Year
Momentum Award: Outdoor Club
On a tour of almost any major university in the United States, a question that inevitably gets asked is, “How can I get involved?”
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Civil Disobedience More Successful Than Violence
In her talk “Why Civil Resistance Works: Unarmed Struggle in the Arab Spring and Beyond,” Erica Chenoweth described her research on unarmed struggle and its applications in today’s world.
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Momentum Award: Chris Faherty
By: David Cote
Christopher Faherty, president of Eagle EMS and A&S ’13, has been riding ambulances for almost a third of his life. Growing up in Little Silver, New Jersey, he began volunteering in the local fire department at the age of 14 to fulfill his Confirmation class community service requirement, transitioned to Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and hasn’t looked back since.
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Reel Big Fish Headlines Modstock
By: David Cote
Ska band Reel Big Fish will headline the UGBC’s annual outdoor Modstock concert this afternoon, May 3, beginning at 3:15 p.m. Opening acts will include Guy Dupont, LSOE ’13, aka ILO Productions, and The Dean’s List. The concert will also feature the winner of Boston College’s Battle of the Bands competition.
